Citadel Resource Group started trading on the Australian stock exchange on December 17 with a 50% interest in the major Jabal Sayid copper project and a 100% stake in an interesting portfolio of copper, gold and other base and precious metal projects on the Arabian Shield in Saudi Arabia.

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International Mining’s leader in the January 2008 issue will examine, in the light of latest Kyoto discussions in Bali, the world need to generate power from coal. Clean coal technologies must be embraced and furthered, particularly coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels.
Last week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the USA, in an early release of its Annual [...]

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Israel’s Third International Rough Diamond Conference, to be held on February 11 - 12, 2008 at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv, will feature official delegations from most African diamond producing countries. This is in keeping with the Israel Diamond Institute’s (IDI) declared goal of intensifying relations between The Israeli Diamond Industry and African [...]

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Africa is attracting much more mining investment this century, and rightly so. Togo is one country we have not heard much about, but now Lithic has completed the acquisition of Regent Resources Capital Corp (RRCC) and its base metal and uranium assets in Togo, and plans to move them forward.

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Within sealed environments designed to sustain human life, such as a mine refuge, rapid removal of toxic gases in an emergency is essential. Molecular Products has developed the MCASPA (Moleculite Carbon Monoxide Self Powered Absorber). This self powered unit is designed to remove carbon monoxide in an enclosed environment, by oxidising hazardous CO to less harmful [...]

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